Ralph Waldo Emerson’s idealism remains an intrinsically baffling strain of thought to for readers interpret even today. Yet Emerson's intellectual stock has never been valued higher. Emersonian thought has become the model of the independent American mind heroically transcending personal and social limitations to liberate its genius. The concept of self-reliance, perhaps Emerson’s most potent and misunderstood concept, constructed in the essay Self-Reliance, is not the philosophy of rugged individualism, nor is it the ideological doctrine of strict libertarianism. Self-reliance is always a method or an instrument, presenting itself in different masks depending on the era and circumstance. It is a cookbook for making lucid universal objective truth through the act of finding the totality of a universe in oneself, seeing oneself as a creator. Read more

Something positive came out of Colorado in 2012 “Colorado strong”. High school senior, Taylor Edgin, furthered the expression, which started on social media, and turned it into a real way to help Coloradans.